Accident Quotes
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True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
Reggie Jackson
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It wasn't a game. He wasn't trying to beat the train. It was an accident.
Samantha Smith
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I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.
Eileen Collins
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I can think of maybe a couple of days before my accident or the day of my accident that I could have definitely done things slightly different.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
John Prine
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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
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Their lead guitar sounded like what would happen if someone wedged a traffic accident into a blender.
Brenna Yovanoff
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We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.
Nigel Mansell
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
Seneca the Younger
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Recording Hysteria and Rick's accident, and the Steve thing, but that was over a period of years. I miss him more now than I did when he first died. I think about him all the time. It bugs me more now. What a waste!
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Fate is a great accident.
Arvo Ylppo
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We do not suffer by accident.
Jane Austen
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I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.
Hermann Hesse
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And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Albert Scott Crossfield
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It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.
Ernest Sosa
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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
Buddy Wakefield
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
Alan Rickman
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It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.
Eugene O'Neill
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Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.
Bob Proctor
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I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.
Elwood G. Norris
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison